On Tue, Jan 07, 2025 at 07:06:35PM -0800, Ron / BCLUG via talk wrote:
Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote on 2025-01-07 14:45:
Ubuntu is debian with more frequenty releases
This is true, and sometimes it's good to remain a bit more current than Debian stable.
and more breakage [...] Upgrades sometimes break. That's not been my experience, I find very, *very* little breakage.
Although, phrased as "more breakage" might mean Debian *never* breaks?
I have seen more ubuntu stable release upgrades break than I have had running Debian unstable.
Admittedly, I do hold off on updating a bit so any kinks are worked out, but the only breakage I can recall was when KDEneon goofed on the otherwise excellent roll-out of Plasma6 where one of their releases broke due to human error.
Pretty embarrassing for a distro that's "KDE devs' KDE distro", for sure. Not an Ubuntu issue though.
(fixed release schedules will never work)
I like them, they do cause some last-minute updates to be left out, and probably some to be rushed, but it is nice to know that the LTS releases (Long Term Support - all that I'll touch) release every two years, in April.
Well as far as I understood it some big screw up caused the latest LTS to be delayed by something like 4 months? My understanding was someone made a change to the dependency resolver in apt, and they had to revert it back to what Debian uses to make it work again so they could actually get a release out that didn't break the upgrade.
No mental calculations on "when was this released, how old is it?"
-- Len Sorensen